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The Queen Mother
- The Untold Story of Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, Who Became Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother
- Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon
- Length: 25 hrs and 35 mins
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Publisher's Summary
Packed with stunning revelations, this is the inside story of The Queen Mother from The New York Times best-selling author who first revealed the truth about Princess Diana.
Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother has been called the "most successful queen since Cleopatra." Her personality was so captivating that even her arch - enemy Wallis Simpson wrote about "her legendary charm." Portrayed as a selfless partner to the King in the Oscar-winning movie The King's Speech, The Queen Mother is most often remembered from her later years as the smiling granny with the pastel hats. When she died in 2002, just short of her 102nd birthday, she was praised for a long life well lived.
But there was another side to her story. For the first time, Lady Colin Campbell tells us that the untold life of The Queen Mother is far more fascinating and moving than the official version that has been peddled ever since she became royal in 1923. With unparalleled sources - including members of the Royal Family, aristocrats, and friends and relatives of Elizabeth herself - this mesmerizing account takes us inside the real and sometimes astonishing world of the royal family.
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- Shirley Grovum
- 2023-03-10
Wasted 10 hours of reading time
Worst book I have ever read. Author must have a very pessimistic outlook on life.
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- maddy
- 2023-02-19
10/10
Adore LCC. Another great book. I had no idea how complex, and ruthless, the Queen Mother was.
Thank you
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- The Barbster
- 2019-01-05
A Real Person
Being an anglophile, I read everything concerning the Royal Family, English history, English gardens and English architecture. I have read the official biography of the Queen Mother and gave it positive reviews but did not write a review. This book I wanted to because of the negative reviews. One of the items I listen for is the references by an author. If I like a book I will purchase that book for my library for my own reference. Lady Colin Campbell, I feel, did a very thorough writing by referencing what she found thru her many years of research. Yes, part of the references can be hearsay, but the listener wants this too because it gives a well-rounded overall view of the person. Many of us never are given the complete view of history. But when you read as many books on one subject, biographies for me, your view is more complete and in depth. Thus, I would highly recommend this book. The narrator is well chosen, Jennifer M. Dixon. Her melodic voice was perfect for this piece. This is now in my Library both in Audibles and at home.
15 people found this helpful
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- Graham Lord
- 2018-11-07
Listen with a huge pinch of salt
I’m not really sure how to summarize his book. There is very little here about the queen mother‘s life. Lots of opinions and gossip. Lots of journeys down speculative roads. I would’ve preferred to hear about the political and social, accomplishments and impact that the queen mother had on her family the country and the world. Having said that the insights that the author gives based on her social connections and interactions with those that knew the queen mother is very interesting and like I said if taken with a pinch of salt, quite entertaining. A little more validation of allegations would have given this book some more clout in its authenticity. It has the feel of a gossiping, name dropping social expose rather than a serious look into the life of the wife and subsequent mother of two monarchs, Which would have provided us with extremely valuable and poignant information.
14 people found this helpful
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- Rebecca Bannister
- 2019-02-02
Pulp - and full of inaccuracies
Author had an agenda and stuck to it. Many wrong facts. I listened all the way through but felt committed.
9 people found this helpful
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- smith
- 2020-05-13
Drones on and on
This book is painfully long and boring. It may have been tolerable with a different reader. The author very frequently goes off topic to name drop about people she knew but is not related to story. She obviously dislikes Elizabeth the Queen Mother and it was evident all the way through the book. Don’t waste your time.
5 people found this helpful
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- Linda Erlich
- 2019-06-22
A gossipy novel about the Queen Mother
As I listened to Lady Campbell's book I wondered if she was attempting to create another she-wolf queen consort of England. The queen she described could be compared to other she-wolf queen consorts: Eleanor of Aquitane and Margaret of Anjou for example who were strong women, stronger than their king husbands.
The Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother Lady Campbell describes is narcissistic, manipulative, and extremely controlling. While she may not have had a perfect caring and loving personality, one has to look at her position in life. She was very powerful and used her power to help the people of the UK. She and her husband led the people through the horrors of WWII. They helped people survive and thrive during the Battle of Britian and were bombed along with them. Queen Elizabeth was a smiling tower of strenghth the her people during the was and afterward. In her long widowhood she continued to serve her country and her people. Whatever her motives, she helped people and did not sit back and enjoy the luxurious life to which she was entitled.
Yes this is an untold story of Queen Elizabeth. However, it seems based on gossip not fact. How sad. I suppose there are people who enjoy reading about the deep flaws in famous people. However, if we are to believe Lady Campbell, queen Elizabeth did bot have a authentic, or good bone in her body. She was pure selfishness. As a psychologist, I find this difficult to believe.
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- Kevin Graves
- 2018-12-08
Horrible, unsubstantiated facts.
Don’t waste your time. Never given a bad review, but this one is a stinker.
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- CaliFunYa
- 2019-05-19
Harsh but occasionally interesting
This book was sadly mean-spirited, with an overload of speculation and questionable information. However, it also provided some authentic and substantiated fresh insights... occasionally.
It was a real challenge to listen to the entire book at times because it was so overloaded with unnecessary detailed information about royal and aristocratic bloodlines that it was extremely monotonous.
The author seemed to absolutely prize caustic, (but irrelevant), gossip which often rabbit-trailed away from the ‘story-line’ while peeking through the windows of acquaintances, strangers, and even those who were long dead and buried... most of whom, (both dead & alive), were irrelevant to the life story of the queen mother Elizabeth... having exerted little or no influence over her or her life.
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- rkr4cds
- 2018-12-06
Wow - what a B****h!
She wasn't ROYAL, in the legal sense, but only marriage and an abdication placed her there.
But that 'Sweet, Granny-style' smile had all of us outsiders fooled. This is a wonderful telling of a life poorly lived. As they say, 'Karma's a B***h'. One wonders about those who don't expect to have to pay-their-debts in the next lifetime......
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- Cindykarol
- 2019-02-25
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I found the book interesting but harsh in personal comments about queen mother .but the book was good little dry in the middle l have re-read so not that bad
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- Marlo Yarnall
- 2019-02-09
Unnecessary information
At one point I felt like I was in a British History class and we were going over family ancestry of 1900 England. Not a book I liked because the author got held up with family connections and jumped around from decade to decade at points. If she would have just focused on Elizabeth it would have been half as long.
Not my favorite Royal book
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